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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-08-13

The Florence Lamp Stove.
You'll wonder that so little a
thing can do so much so well.
Bakes, broils, boils and the like
perfectly in a small way. Gives
light at the same time. 50
cents; regular price IS.
IOIIN WANAMAKER.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets,
and City-hall square.
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Homespun. For all-thc-ycar-
round wear. Good width, we'll
made, medium weight. For
service, not show. I2'4c.
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az cent Satccns. Sure
enough Satcens. The sheen
and the printing are there.
The little cost comes from
coarscncss. Andy yet the ~
cent Sateens are surprisingly
fine.
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Century Cloth
Strong. Cloth
Old-tine Calico

Better than any Calicocs
your mothers or grandmothers
had. Ncater in the printing,
pretticr in the pattern, just as
honest in the cotton. They re
the first of the Fall stutfs to be
opened. \ Market street Win
dow full of them. 10 cents.
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New Black Silk Jersey Mitts:
exceptional values. 20, IS and
S71a cents.
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This Wonderful Driving Cart Has No EquaIl

1t the only cart that be adjusted suit the rider
The springs be changed to suit the load road in five
seconds This very valuable feature that other
has. Where other carts have from feet spring, the
Spiral has 20 foot spring, giving much elasticity than
any other cart made.
This EAsY-RIDING has bars climb in
getting and of the This makes it desirable all
classes of persons We guarantee have less horse
motion than any other and to give Aokoom for easy
horse travel than any other made.
The wonderful actions of the springs make by far
FINEST-RIDING CART yet made.
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HORRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT
An Excursion Train Crushes Through
a Burning CuIvert.
THE SLAUGHTER OF ll8 PEOPLE.

SiN Loaded Passenger Coaches Crushed to
spiinters-The Wreck Takes Fire, i:"t is
Pat Out with Dirt Eesldes the Killed
oyer 400 are Toured, Many at Them
Fatally.
One of the most horn ihle, and III its re
suits, most disaSterous railroad accidents
that have ever occurred III this country,
| happened on Wednesday night shortly
| before II o'clock, on the Toledo, Peoria
| and Warsaw road, near Chatsworth, Ill.
| \ train with over 900 passengers on
| board, en- route for Niagara, in going
| across a culvert which was ablaZe, hav-
ing been ignited, it is supposed, by prai-
RE fires, and weakened, caused it to give
way, and one engine, six coaches and
three baggage ears plunged down into a
dry creek. Over 100 passengers were al
mo- st instantly killed and about four times
as many injured. 70 ada to the horror,
the fire from the culvert communicated
to the wreck, but was fortunately ex-
| atoii'' " eii' Sti Wv l'i9 hi'lh
and passengers before 1t could spread.
Below Will be found the particulars of
the catastrophe.
| HOW THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED.
| CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. 1.-THE Times $
special from Forest, ILL.,, says: All the
Railway horrors IN the history of this
country were surpassed three miles east
of Cl!attsworth last night when All excur-
sion train on the Toledo, Peoria and
Western road dropped through burning
bridge and over 100 people were killed
and four times that number we're more or
less badly injured. The train was com.
posed of six sleeping cars, six day coaches
and chair-cars ana three baggage. 1t was
carrying $50 passengers, all excursionists,
and was bound for Niagara Falls. The
| train had been made up all along the line
of the Toledo Peoria and Western road.
| and the excursionIsts hailed from various
points in Central Illinois. the bulk of
| them, however, coming from Peoria.
Some of the passengers came from Can
| ton, E!paso, Washington and in fact all
stations along the line; some from as far
west as Burlington and keokuk, Iowa.
\ special and cheap rate had been made
| for the excursion and all sorts of people
took advantage OF it.
When the train drew out of Peoria at
o'clock last evening it was loaded to it's
utmost capacity. Every berSh in the six
seepers was taken and the day cars car
Rcd GO people each. The train was SD
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TIE ACCIDENT

Right up before his eyes leaped the
bright flames and the next instant he was
among them. There was no cnance to
stop. Had there been warning it would
have taken half Il mile to stop that on
rushing mass of wood. iron and human
lives, and the train was within 100 yards
of the red tor gued messengers of death
before they flashed their fatal signals
into the engineers face. But he passed
over in safety, the first engine keeping the
rails. As it went over the bridge fell be-
meath it and it could only have been the
terrific speed of the train which saved the
lives of the engineer aud his tiremen.
But tue next engine went down and in
stantly the deed of death was done. Car
crashed into car, coaches piled one on top
of another, and in a twinkliDg of an eye
nearly 100 persons found instant death
and 30 more were so hurt they could not
live. AS for the wounded, they were
ev rywhere. Only the sleeping coaches
escaped, and as the startled, half dressed
passengers came tumbing out of them
they found such scene of death as is
rarely witnessed, and such work to do
that it seemed as if human hands were
utterly incapable.
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FOUR ALIVE OUT OF A CAR FULL.

1t lacked but five minutes of midnight
Down in the ditch lay the second en-
gineer McClintock, dead and Fireman
Applegate badly injured. On top were
piled the three baggage cars, one on top
of another, like a child's cardhouse after
he had swept it with his hand. Then
came the Sis day coaches. They were
teleSc0ped as cars never were before, and
three of them were pressed into just
space enough for one. The second car
had mounted off its trucks, crashed
through the car ahead of it, crushing the
wood work aside like finder, and lay
there resting on the tops of the seats
while every passenger in the front car
was lying dead and dying underneath
Out of that Car but four people came
alive. On top of the second car lay the
third and its bottom was smeared with
the blood of its victims. The other three
cars were not SO badly crushed, but they
were broken ard twisted in every con
ceivable way, aus every crushed timber
and beam represented ii crushed human
frame and a broken bone. Instantly the
air was filled with the cries of the
wounded aud the shriekS of those about
to die. The groans of men and the
screams of women united made an ap-
palling sound, and above all could be
heard the agoniZiug cries of little chill
dren, as il. some instances they lay pinned
by the side of their dead parents.
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The old-timc Calicoc
Heavy, strong, tough, hard
twisted threads. lirmncsS in
the weave, substance in the
feel, satisfaction in the wear.
Like the degenerate, tlimsy,
slimpsy Calicoes of to-day in
little but name. We've tire,
kinds
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HjanamakGr's.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday. August 5, 1857.
Store closed at I p. NJ. on
Saturdays during the Summer.
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ELKTON. AUGUST -, 1887.

The Republican voters Of the several
Election Districts of Cecil county are
requested to assemble in Primary Meet
ings, at the usual voting places i'll said
liSfrictS IN
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-08-13

be a highly dangerous one.
, 1887-09-22
The Methodist Univ ersitv
Olympia Nsw Traaseript.I

| Oiyhpl1 NeU JrdRscFiDt.1
Much feeling WIS manifest in tn,
late Methodist conference in reparr
to the location of the university
The conference last year, it appears
entered into a contract with the cit;-
zens of Port Townsend, throuob l..
Board OF Trade, that if Port Town.
send would raise a bonus of $50. .OO(
the University should be located nj
that place. Believing this offer gen
ulne the Port Townsend people went
TO work with commendable energy
and long beiore conference met had
raised more than tho amount. vaI
when conference met it fiatly refusad
to ratlfy the contract of its predeces
sor.
The action of a majority of the late
conference, on this question, was
strangely in keeping with that OF
poi1tlcal conventions. The special
pleadings of soma ministers were
strikinsly like those of pot house
politicians, when driven to the wall
take refuge behind a subterfuge. III
a political party convention should
ignore party pledge as this confer
ence ignored its pledge, it would be
denounced as corrupt, and it's our
opinion none would be more ready to
denounce it than these same preach
ers who were so tireless to defeat
Port Townsend. We are sorry for
this action, as it Will injure the cause
of education, Will give the University
black eye for years, and give scof-
fers a golden opportunity to abuse
the church,
, 1887-09-22

An eastern Washington paper pub
lished at Goldehdale. makes the fol-
lowing astounding declaration: "The
Democratic party has always fought
for the principle of our homestead
laws, and opposed the giving of
granted lands to corporations" The
foregoing is exactly the opposite of
tie truth. Our national homestead
law Was defeated by the Buchanan
administration, but was passed when
the Republican party came into pow
Ell, and was signed by President Lin
coin. Under democratic rule over
six tenths of the land grants to cor
porations were made that ever were
made-and the first land grant to Il
railroad company was made by the
democrats. The present admins
tration is making a pretty fair record
on this subject-but its enthusiastic
partisan journals had better let the
mas bsens" alone.
, 1887-09-22
Wizards Purpose.

The Oregonian in commenting on
the result that will probably arise
from an agreement between the
Northern Pacific and Oregon Railway
& Navigation company, says:
The roads are now in the hands of
men pledged to just policy and it
may be assumed that they will be
operated on business principles. As
to tie Union Pacific no assurances
are II eded and Mr.. Vallard's tele-
gram to the mayor and citizens of
Seattle is sufficient assurance from
the Northern Pacific. We may ex-
pect change in the management of
the last named property by substitu-
tion of fair and Legitimate business
policy for a speculative and diserim
mating policy. Seattle has much to
gain from this change aud Portland,
If she has little to gain has nothing
to lose.
Il
1t is apparent that the relations of
MIR. Willard to the Northwest will be
of more general nature than form :
erly; that is, he does not come in
now as an opponent or antagonist of
the Wright interest, but as one who
Is likely TO exercise a good deal of
influence as moderator of the
Wright policy, SO that the Northern
may be operated in a more general
sense for the carrying business and
less as an adjatant of interests apart
from transportation. Nor can it be
said that he will want to subordinate
the Northern to the y. r. & N, for
the relations of the o. r. q N forbid
that supposition. His position seems
to be one that will tend naturally to
enforce fair dealing all round. This
is why Seattle rejoices. Portland's
Independent po 'ition, gained through
other connections. makes it a matter
of little actual moment to her; yet
she is an interested spectator of it.
, 1887-09-22

Seattle rejoices greatly because
Willard has been returned to the
Northern Pacific directorate. The
whole northwest should rpioice-be-
cause Willard is broad minded enough
to grasp diversified public necessities,
and fair minded enough to operate
the road as legitimate common car
rier. without favoritisms or unjust
determinations between towns. The
magnificent patrimony granted to the
N. Z. by our government carried with
it an obligation on the part of that
company to serse the whole public
alike. Under its late management it
has diverted public assistance from
legitimate use to serve the ends of
spectators interested in booming
one town TO the detriment of others.
MIR. Willard will be a pt wer among
the n. p. directors. His presence
and influence will be felt as never
before. He has shown himself cam
able Of surmountirg financial diff
culties, overcoming the Vaccinations
of personal enemies. and rising su-
perior to obstacles that would have
, 1887-09-22
"a Good. Nurse

Should not hesitate to wait upon those
i'll with snch diseases as Smallpox,
Cholera or Scarlet Fever. There is little
be feared by persons waiting on the
sick if they will use Darbys Propbylactic
Fluid freely. In sick rooms it should
be exposed on a plate or saucer, and the
patient sponged of with the Fluid
diluted. For safety, cleanliness and
comfort IN the siek-room the Fluid ia
indispensable,
, 1887-09-22

Frank Henry's poem "rhe Old Set
tier" has been published in book form
aud illustrated It is for sale at T. @.
Van Epps' book store in Olympia.
, 1887-09-22

A splendid chance to locate a man
with small means on land suitable for
fruit, hops, cranberries and small fruit
near steamer landing. Get particu-
Lara Mt this nffica
, 1887-09-22

A fine thoroughbred Poland China
boar, two years old. can be purchased or
traded for on reasonable terms. For
particulars apply at this office.
, 1887-09-22

Ca. be truly said o! that new and cfie= cious
remedy for Consumption and diseases Of the
THROAT, Chest and LuEgS, SANTA Abir. for il is
pleasant 10 the palate and death 10 cold
Every bottle warranted by jas. ID. MiSkLER the
Druggist.
, 1887-09-22

We reprint today more newspaper
comment upon the late conference
action In reference to its Port Town
send university contract As far as
We have seen, the newspapers TIA
coma alone excepted) unite in de-
nouncing such unjust, mercenary
treatment as we have been subjected
to. MIR. Denison solemnly warned
the conference that the public would
SO regard their action if they repudi-
ated their contract-and the result
verifes that prediction. A public
body is responsible at the bar of pub
lie opinion for its public acts. The
Al. e. conference is no exception to
the rule. But these wrongs will be
righted. Already there are unfai!ing
signs that the membership of the NJ.
E. Church in Western Washington
is aroused to the point of indignant
rebellion against the acts of its rep
resentatives. The result will show
that membership to be anything but
repudiaters.
, 1887-09-22

The writer has been absent from
the city during the progress of the
discussion in regard to the Methodist
university matter and has not yet had
opportunity to inform himself in re-
gard to it fully, but it seems patent
on its face that Rev. Mr.. Hanson has
BON subjected to unjust criticism
upon his course in the. matter. The
action of the conference in p7tting
the location of the university up to
public bid is indefensible. If Port
Townsend has not fully made up the
required bonus more time should
have been granted to allow her to do
SO, and then the conference should
comply with its part of the agree
ment. That body cannot afford to
take advantage of technicalities in
regard to time or anything else.-Se
attle Press.
1.-THE propositions laid down by our
contemporary are correct, what be.
comes of Mr.. Hanson's position
Will the Press please explain to a
suffering public wherein MIR. Hanson
has been uniustly criticised. if lis de-
clarations are true?
, 1887-09-22

New York Socialists and Anarchists
were on the ram page last Monday
night. Three thousand five hundred
assembled in cooper Union. They
protested vigorously against the
hanging of their brethren at Chicago.
Herr Most was the hero of the hour.
He cried out LET there be social
revolution" We say Amen if he
means a revolution of socialism 1t
needs it.
, 1887-09-22

The Tacoma Ledger was SO com.
pletcly and utterly "knocked silly"
by the election of Willard as con-
trolling spirit in the board of N. P.
directors that its editor went off into
whole columns of drivel in which
Judge Jacobs and Shakespeare and
Prof Weir and Sir Walter Scott and
cipher hieroglyphics were incoher-
emily jumbled together. A gaunt,
slaring. spectral nightmare seems to
be lowering down over Radebaugh's
terror-stricken soul, and hia squaking
gibberish attests the fortunate econ
omy that placed the insane asylum SO
near his sanctum.
, 1887-09-22
FAMILY GROCERIES !!

We always keep in stock complete
line of Choice Family Groceries, and
will sell them at prices which cannot
be beat by any firm on the Coast.
Will deliver all goods free of charge
to any part Of the city.
Give us trial in this line and see
if we don't please you, both in prices
and quality.
, 1887-09-22

The Port Townsend Southern r.
r. Co. is completing its preliminaries
and will soon be ready to move.
Olympia is naturally quite anxious
to be connected with it, and will aid
it literally on condition of such con-
nection.
, 1887-09-22

Herr Most is having fine time
denouncing the law for condemninS
the Chicago anarchists to be hung
Incidentally he Is demonstrating to
order loving America what useless,
mischievous, undesirable person an
anarchist is.
, 1887-09-22
-. o IA H.

Henry George has made SI5, 5,0CO
ty his labor agitation during the last
three years.
, 1887-09-22

Tacoma papers are having terrible
time now to explain away their for
mer sighting remarks about Mr..
Willard, and to cover that gentleman
with fulsome fattery sufficient to
offset the old score. Indeed they
have quite proven already that the
Wright crowd invited Willard to q
seat on the board of directors-after
they found they couldn't prevent his
election. His telegram to the mayor
of Seattle sounds very much as
though it came from man in the
saddle, who proposed to guide the
steed with firm hand.
, 1887-09-22

The Southern California R. R. is
arranging q scheme to cut down pas
senger rates so that emigrants can be
brought to California for SIS each.
This is sensible in the extreme. II
our railroads would make the effort
they could bring a Hundred thousand
people to the Puget Sound country
in the next six months. This would
double their freight carrying and
double the first class passenger trav-
ell. Why not? There is money in il
for everybody.
, 1887-09-22

A movement is on foot to build a
dry dock at San Pedro. A number
of San Francisco capitalists have
formed a company to push the
scheme. The dock is to be 1900 feet
long and will cost 100000. A line
of first class tugs is also to be e5tab-
lished and warehouses and wharyes
are to be built.
, 1887-09-22

Our stock in these lines comprise the
latest styles and best goods. Come
and see what we have to offer before
purchasing elsewhere.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-03-19
Historical Old Clothes.

Then the old clothes of the great peo-
pie of history, what an air of dignity
they have, even in their decay. Mel
sons old uniform, shot-torn and blood
stained; the hodden-gray coat in the
library at Abbotsford; what associations
they suggest! In what limbo, / won
der, is that yeomanry uniform of Sir
Walters. about which his friend Pringle
of Whytbank used to tell SO good a
story? How they were in Paris to-
gether soon after Waterloo. Paris was
very gay and crowded, the Emperor
Alexander i. and number of fire.
eating Russians being there. The two
Scotchmen were asked TO some ball
given in honor of the Gar where uni
form was de rigueur. and Scott was
rather in difficulties, till he bethought
him Of his old ycomanry uniform. in
which he accordingly appeared. Being
in the course of the evening presented
to the Car Of all the Russians, who had
no idea as to who he was, that great
potentate, struck by uniform quite
strange to him, asked Mr.. Scott with
some interest in what engagements he
had taken part. He replied with ready
wit: .'La bataille dc Crosse-causeway,
etl'affaire dc Trancnt." The Gar, too
polite or too proud TO show his ignor-
ance of these battles, bowed with grave
courtesy, and said no more Cham
bI9s' Journal.
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Judge Usher of Lawrence. Kas..
probably the last surviving member of
the Lincoln Cabinet, relates this in
cident: after Paine was incarcerated
for his attempted assassination Of
Seward, he for long time kept stoical
silence. But one day after his sem
tence he broke into tears rs he made
his sorrowful confession TO Gen.
Eckert Among other things he said
about this: Il was appointed 10 as
sassinate Lincoln, and fully intended to
do so. Everybody knew his custom
was TO 90 over to the War Department,
after all the duties Of the day were
over. for the latest nows from the seat
of war, and l expected to shoot him on
one of these trips; but after / took the
contract he did not go over at night
for two weeks, and was reprimanded;
so / determined to find an opportunity.
l stood behind tree the night after
my reprimand, when Mr.. Lincoln and
another gentleman unexpectedly passed
me. WAITED for their return. As they
passed Mr.. Lincoln was telling a story,
of which / caught n sentence. l fol-
lowed with my pistol cooked, but
waited 10 hear the rest of the story
Then he related the story. The delay
saved him, for they were soon joined
by others which prevented my shoot
ing. II was night when the sheet
ice on the ground made so much noise
1t was not easy to hear "-Neo York
Star
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To snye the OIL.

A special from Harrisburg, Pa,
says: The bill introduced in the Penn
sylvania house of representatives Fri
day providing that no oil or gas well
shall be drilled on any tract within a
distance OF 800 feet OF the boundary
line, except it be on the boundary line
itself, in which case the product OF the
well shall be equally divided between
the adjoining land owners, is the first
feasible measure that has ever been
suggested by which the excessive pro-
duction Of petroleum could be prevent
ed by law. If a law such as the one
proposed had been passed five years
ago over FIVE million barrels of oil
would have been saved TO the OIL re-
gions, by keeping the supply within
the demand and thousands of acres Of
oil territory now exhausted would have
been still untouched by the drill. The
bill will be bitterly opposed by large
class OF producers, however, and the
fight against il will be made on the
ground that ii Is unconstitutional.
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they viii be tearing each others eyes
out. !" The modern French code OF
honor is mentioned which allows the
slightest offence to provoke a
duel. and makes a fight with
rapiers or pistols obligatory
upon every journalist and politician.
Gambetta's famous duel with M. De
Fourtou is for the first time fully and
faithfully narrated. One Of tho IL
Illustrations represents the actual scene
OF exchanging pistol-shots ut thirty
PAGES, and another shows Gambetta
shooting sparrows from his window or
the morning of his contest. A droll
incident, illustrated by full-pagc
engraving. is the celebrated duel in the
rain between the critic Saint Bnuvc
and the journalist M. dubois. in which
Saint-Bcuvc insisted upon holding up
his umbrella as well as his pistol, say
ing, Il am quite ready TO be killed.
but / do not wish 10 catch cold"
Both adversarics shot four times, but,
as is usually the case. neither was
harmed.